Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion

For nearly two hours on a recent afternoon, Lydia Lunch sat in her bright Brooklyn apartment and spoke with bracing speed, and at an alarming volume, about rape, murder, incest, genocide, racism, sadism, torture and — for a thunderous encore — the apocalypse. Because she has spent more than four decades broadcasting her belief that…

The Translucent History of Wine

If your summer road trip takes you to New York’s Southern Tier, along the border with Pennsylvania, or to the Finger Lakes wine country, plan a stop in Corning, the city known for glassware and home of the vast collection in its Museum of Glass. Starting Saturday and running through the end of the year…

Cocktail Bites With a European Twist

The Brooklyn company Savorly’s line of frozen hors d’oeuvres, created in Belgium and France, can be quickly heated in the oven or air fryer for an array of colorful and tasty puff pastry mini-pies, mini-tarts and cocktail bites. They’re mostly filled with vegetable mixtures, and sometimes with cheese, but no meat or seafood. Newest are…

An Everyday Upgrade to Your Dinner Table

Bklyn Clay, a ceramics studio that offers classes and sells ceramics and materials for potters, has introduced a line of practical stoneware bowls and plates in several sizes. The collection, initially offered in white, now includes satin or glossy finishes, speckled or not, in a range of colors, including celadon, saddle, saffron and a shade…

Dijon or Nothing

That July Fourth hot dog will probably be slathered with everyday yellow, but for more refined preparations, it’s Dijon that’s in demand. The city in France’s Burgundy region south of Paris, the center of French mustard production today, is just one stop on the journey that mustard has taken over 5,000 years, becoming a favorite…

Shawarma, Shawarma, Shawarma!

Good morning. Air fryers, Instant Pots, sous vide machines, I’ve tried them all. With the exception of the air fryer, which I think is just a big toaster oven with a fan in it, I’m agnostic about their worth. If you use them, great. But I’ve seen a lot of kitchens where they sit, dusty…